Amanda Seyfried says she turned down a television role because of its sex scenes, according to the Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly and Variety. The actress spoke at the Hamptons International Film Festival in East Hampton, N.Y., on Oct. 4, and the quotes were first reported by People.
What she said
Seyfried was on a two-person panel moderated by Alec Baldwin. “I passed on a show where I would have to have sex all the time because of the sex,” she said. “Doesn’t matter [who it’s with] … I don’t wanna do it. I’m uncomfortable with it. I’m not into it right now.” She did not name the series.
She added that her view could change. “Maybe if [the project] came along again [at a later point], maybe I’d be in a different space,” she said. “But I don’t wanna deal with being naked with a stranger.”
Why she is saying no more often
Seyfried said her children are paying attention to what she does. “And so I have to be less of a pushover,” she said. The Hollywood Reporter says she gave an everyday example: while walking across a Manhattan street with her daughter, a stranger asked for a photo, and she said no. She said her daughter told her she was proud of her.
She also said that whatever her children are going through is more important than what she is going through, so when she is with them she says no to photo requests.
How her outlook has changed
Seyfried said acting gets stranger with age. “We have to be romantic with people that we’re not romantic with,” she said. “Sometimes it’s great. Sometimes it’s really uncomfortable.” EW notes she once saw such scenes as “a non-thing,” recalling an early career in which she thought, “I get to make out with a hot person today … and they’re paying me.”
EW reports she was at the festival to support “The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd,” directed by Tim Blake Nelson, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Sources: Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, People (as cited by the Hollywood Reporter and EW). Images are editorial cartoons, not photographs.
